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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. AllegroGraph vs. Badger vs. ClickHouse vs. Geode

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Name

Description

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tables

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

allegrograph.com

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

clickhouse.com

geode.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

clickhouse.com/docs

geode.apache.org/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Franz Inc.

DGraph Labs

Clickhouse Inc.

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Initial release

2016

2004

2017

2016

2002

Current release

8.0, December 2023

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

bulk load of XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SPARQL is used as query language

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

with Federation

none

key based and custom

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Access rights per client and object definable

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